Category Archives: Budget Industry

Guided-missile Destroyer USS Mason Shoots Down Drone in Red Sea

Guided-missile Destroyer USS Mason Shoots Down Drone in Red Sea

USS Mason (DDG-87) sails in the Atlantic Ocean June 27, 2023. US Navy Photo

This post will be updated as additional information becomes available.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG-87) shot down a drone in the Red Sea on Wednesday, just days after USS Carney (DDG-64) downed three drones launched from Yemen, a defense official confirmed to USNI News. Read More

U.S. Urging Pacific Allies to Step Up Surveillance at Sea, Says Official

U.S. Urging Pacific Allies to Step Up Surveillance at Sea, Says Official

Medium displacement unmanned surface vessels Seahawk, front, and Sea Hunter launch for the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Systems Integrated Battle Problem 21 (UxS IBP 21), April 20, 2021. US Navy Photo

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As China expands its operations across the Pacific, the U.S. is urging countries in the region to expand their maritime awareness through new technology like unmanned systems, the Pentagon’s assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs said Tuesday. Read More

China Masses Militia Ships in Spratlys, Transit of USS Gabrielle Giffords Irks Beijing

China Masses Militia Ships in Spratlys, Transit of USS Gabrielle Giffords Irks Beijing

Chinese Maritime Militia vessels. Philippine Coast Guard Photo

Littoral Combat Ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) sailed past Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed Spratly Island chain in the South China Sea, prompting an angry response from the Chinese military. Meanwhile, the Philippines issued a release on Sunday stating that more than 135 China Maritime Militia (CMM) were massing around a Philippine claimed reef in the Spratlys. Read More

Navy, Marine Team Recover P-8A from Hawaiian Bay

Navy, Marine Team Recover P-8A from Hawaiian Bay

Diving and salvage experts working alongside U.S. Navy sailors and Marines use inflatable salvage roller bags to extract the U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon from waters just off the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Dec. 2, 2023. US Marine Corps Photo

A team of U.S. Navy salvage experts, Marine Corps air support teams and contractors over the weekend successfully recovered a P-8A Poseidon that had been floating in a Hawaiian bay since it overshot a runway two weeks ago. Read More

PHIBRON 5 Commodore Removed from Command

PHIBRON 5 Commodore Removed from Command

USS Boxer (LHD 4) and USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) transit the Pacific Ocean, Nov. 4, 2023. U.S. Navy Photo

The commander of a California-based amphibious squadron was removed from command on Friday following an arrest last week in Coronado, USNI News has learned. Read More

Japanese Officials Raise Concerns Over V-22 Osprey Flights

Japanese Officials Raise Concerns Over V-22 Osprey Flights

U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, off-load from a U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 262, Marine Air Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, at Hijyudai Maneuver Area, Oita, Japan, Oct. 25, 2023. US Marine Corps Photo

Top Japanese government officials have expressed concern that the United States is not providing sufficient information regarding the ongoing flights of U.S. Ospreys in Japan following Wednesday’s crash of an Air Force Special Operations (AFSOC) CV-22 in the waters of Yakushima Island. Meanwhile, the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group (CSG) wrapped up drills with a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer on Thursday. Read More